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Essential Software for Windows

September 23, 2006

You know the old routine – You get a new machine and then you spend weeks looking for and installing all the applications, tools, utilities, etc that you had on your old computer that made you so productive. There is always that utility that you use once in a while but you just can't seem to find it.

I recently bought a new computer and decided to make a list of all the software I installed on the new computer so that I'm ready to do this again for my next machine. I wish I had discovered Belarc Advisor before I rebuilt my old desktop as a Linux (Ubuntu) desktop. So here is a fairly complete list of what's installed on my machine and if you see something that I should have, please leave me a comment:
The Essentials

Development

Audio, Video & Graphics

Browsers & Extensions

Utilities

Tagged as: BEA, carbonite, development, glassfish, idea, intellij, Linux, netbeans, software, Vista, WebLogic, windows

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September 23, 2006 at 4:41 pm

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1 bk September 23, 2006 at 3:43 pm

Servant Salamander (shareware) and Lanchy (freeware) are musts for me.

2 Vinny Carpenter September 23, 2006 at 3:55 pm

Hi there and thanks. Servant Salamander looks interesting but Launchy looks pretty useful. I'll download and give it a shot. Thanks.

3 nobody September 23, 2006 at 4:52 pm

wow, the amount of google fascism in this list is pretty high

4 Marc Logemann September 25, 2006 at 12:40 am

Its amazing to see the same software again and again on developer machines. IMO you can see the skills of a developer from their installed software :)

IDEA, DBVis, Ultraedit, MySQL, Tomcat, Apache HTTP, Glassfish, it all sounds so famillar. The only thing one can really live without are all those MySQL GUI Tools. IMO they are crap and are not worth using them.

5 Vinny Carpenter September 25, 2006 at 7:31 am

Hi Marc and thanks. I use DbVisualizer for most database interactions but I still do use the MySQL Administrator for scheduled backups to my local desktop. They have some redeeming value :)

6 Mark Hense September 27, 2006 at 7:31 am

Maybe I missed it in your list (then again you may not choose to use it), but I did not see anything for a PGP Key?

7 Vinny Carpenter September 27, 2006 at 8:41 am

Hi Mark. You're right – I did forget it off the list. I use WinPT, which is a free GUI front end for GnuPG. Works great and allows me to use it with Outlook, GMail and really anything else I want.

8 Erik Weibust April 22, 2007 at 7:48 am

Is this the same list of software you're running since you upgraded to Vista? I just got a new laptop running Vista and I'm worried about software incompatibilities.

Thanks… Erik

9 vinarian December 15, 2008 at 6:14 am

I notice that you have Yahoo, MSN, and Google messengers on the list, to shorten time, space, and memory, just use pidgin or digsby, both are great (and free, pidgin is open source) multi client im apps

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